- A descant,
discant, or
discantus is any of
several different things in music,
depending on the
period in question; etymologically, the word
means a voice...
- "Theme from A
Summer Place" is a song with
lyrics by Mack
Discant and
music by Max Steiner,
written for the 1959 film A
Summer Place,
which starred Sandra...
-
conducti are for four voices. Stylistically, the
conductus is a type of
discant (i.e. note-against-note polyphony). Its form can be
strophic or through-composed...
-
chant uses ligatures, the
tenor becomes modal and it will have
become discant,
which is the
second form.[clarification needed] The
third form is co****...
-
Organum Book), as
optimus discantor referring to his
discant composition., In the
original discant organum duplum, the
second voice follows the cantus...
- and
discant clausulae.
Later in the century, the
motets by
Petrus de
Cruce and the many
anonymous composers,
which were
descended from
discant clausulae...
- “little conclusion";
plural clausulae) was a
newly composed section of
discant ("note
against note")
inserted into a pre-existing
setting of organum....
-
contratenor was a
voice part
added to the
basic two-part
contrapuntal texture of
discant (superius) and
tenor (from the
Latin tenere,
which means to hold, since...
-
Anonymous IV
mentions Léonin and Pérotin as the best
composers of
organum and
discant respectively. He also
mentions specific compositions as
being by Pérotin...
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Concert zither with a
fretted fingerboard. This
variety is a
discant Salzburger Konzertzither....
